Redline Trading Solutions, a provider of high-performance market data and order execution systems for automated trading, today announced a new InRush feed handler for the next-generation binary multicast feed now being rolled out for foreign exchange trading on the Thomson Reuters FX MatchingTM platform. Over the last few years, electronic trading in foreign exchange has…
Read moreLondon Stock Exchange Group’s UnaVista today announced it has welcomed more than 20 firms to its Partner Programme in the first half of 2017. The Partner Programme was launched to bring together the world's leading financial services and regulatory technology firms to increase efficiency and reduce operational and regulatory risk for clients. The UnaVista Partner…
Read more
The Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) and the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) announced that have signed an agreement to launch a green bond index that synchronously displays quotes in China and Europe. The new index series tracks the performance of Chinese green bonds in Renminbi and used to finance environmentally-friendly projects. The index series is composed…
Read more
Starting today the Vienna Stock Exchange offers domestic investors a wider range of securities by adding the 30 largest and most-frequently traded German stocks to its market. The new “global market” segment was launched at the beginning of June with the start of trading in 133 US stocks. The Vienna Stock Exchange has now taken…
Read more
The Council announced that has agreed to develop a framework for a joint EU diplomatic response to malicious cyber activities, the cyber diplomacy toolbox. The EU recognises that cyberspace offers significant opportunities, but also poses continuously evolving challenges for EU external action. The EU is concerned by the increased ability and willingness of state and…
Read more
When Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC) bought CFH Group late last year for $120 million, we knew that they had big plans in store. Playtech (and its founder Teddy Sagi) does not do things small. Well today we are learning about at least one of the company's plans for one of the CFH units, to become a…
Read more
The following article was written by Adinah Brown, content manager at Leverate. Emotions play a big part in your trading. We often talk about setting up strategies to keep your emotions from taking over and triggering your trades, because when traders don’t take the precautionary measures to do so, it often costs them dearly. The…
Read more
GTX (Switzerland) GmbH, the Swiss institutional FX subsidiary of global forex broker Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP), has announced that it has opened a new office in Zurich to support sales to money center and regional banks as well as fund managers. The new office is headed by Antonio (Toni) Fañanas, Director, Institutional Sales. Mr.…
Read more
Swedish payments firm Klarna just announced that had received a banking license from Sweden's financial watchdog Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen). While the company would not comment on immediate plans, the banking license that is valid across the European Union gives it "very interesting opportunities" including the possibility to issue credit cards and other retail banking…
Read more
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), the central bank of Ukraine and acting regulator has announced simplified rules governing trading in foreign currency and investment metals in the interbank FX market of Ukraine and the international FX market. First, the simplified rules shall apply to forward FX transactions. The NBU has allowed banks to perform…
Read more